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0 e G g UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE osEoRN oULvEE, or QUAERYvrLLEA NEW JERSEY.

GATE;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,395, dated September 4, 1900.

Application led April 28, 1900. Serial No. 14,713. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE OsBoRN CUL- VER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Quarryville, inthe county of Sussex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Gate, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 1

The invention is an improvement in the class of farm-gates which are mounted and` adapted to slide on rollers pivoted to posts.

My invention relates to the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the irnproved gate closed, showing, in dotted lines, however, a partial open position of the gate; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the gate and its supports, `illustrating the gate open and standing open transversely of the space between the gate-posts.

Three gate-posts are preferably employed, two outer posts 10 and 1l and an intermediate post 13, which is nearer to the post 1l, which is the keeper-post, than to the post 10, which is the swing-post for thelgate.

by pedestrians,and a larger opening A',adapt` ed for the passage of vehicles. The post 11 is provided with openings l2, adapted to receive an extension from the gate D, to beA hereinafter described. Portionsof fencef panels C are illustrated adjacent to the outer gate-posts. Y

The gate D may be of any approved construction. Usually, however, it consists, as

illustrated, of end uprights 14 and 15, intermediate uprights 16, located at one side ofV Unden this arrangement of gate-posts a small opening A is provided, especially adapted for use' `right 16. `transverse of the space A between the posts rail 17 of the gate. The rails of the gate are likewise arranged for engagement with a larger pulley 20, and this pulley receives the opposite longitudinal edges ofiopposing rails 17, and the intermediate upright 16 of the gate is provided with a recess 16, which recess is adapted to receive the peripheral portion of the large pulley 20 when the gate is opened. The larger pulley 20, which is always in engagement with the gate, is mounted on `a spindle 21, attached to a sleeve 22, and

this sleeve has sliding movement on a vertical shaft 23, journaled in bearings 24, attached to the inner face of the swing-post 10.

` This shaftis provided with openings 25, and a pin 26 is passed through the sleeve 22`and .snow or ice.

A suitable latch 27 is provided to hold the gate closed. When the gate is closed, it eX- tends from the post 10 to the post l1, as shown in positive lines in Fig. 1, the forward portion of the gate being supported by the `smaller pulley 19, while the rear or heel' por- `tion of the gate is supported by the larger pulley 20. Should a pedestrian desire to pass through the gate, the latch 27 is disengaged and the gate is simply pushed back until the forward end upright 15 engages with the smaller pulley V19 or to the position shown in dot-ted lines in Fig. 1. When, however, a ve- `hicle is to pass, the gate is carried back andat the same time disengaged from the smaller pulleyp19 andis carried beyond said pulley and rearward until the larger pulley 20 enters the recess 16Li in the intermediate up- The gate is now turned, so as to be 10 and 13, as shown in positive lines in Fig. 2, and, if desired, the gate maybe forced forward, so that its forward end will rest upon the ground and its rear portion be supported by the larger pulley 20. If it be desirable to turn short after passing through the gateopening, the gate is carried around to a posi- IOO 2 a esmas tion parallel with the 'inner face of the fencepanel C, remaining, however, at all times on the larger pulley 20, and then the gate may be pushed forward until its rear upright 14 is practically in alinement with the swingpost 10. The gatev may be so balanced and constructed that it may be operated readily, even by a child.

It will be noticed that the gate canb'e adjusted without the aid of a hammer or wrench and that the spindle 2l, upon' which the main supporting-pulley 20 is-carried, does not extend beyond .the front face of the pulley and is therefore not liable to be caught by any object or part of an object passing the gate. It may be Valso stated that there is no danger of cattle raising the gate or in any 'manner interfering with its proper action and that as there is little strain upon the gate-posts they may be made very light.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentt The combination,with a swing or pivot post, of a gate-support comprising a rotatable shaft arranged vertically or parallel to the post,

, and having a series of holes, a sleeve mounted to slide vertically on said shaft, and hav# -ing an opening adapted. to register with the 'holes'in the sleeve, a pin for securing the sleeve in any adjustment, a pulley mounted rotatably on said sleeve, and a gate mounted slidably on said pulley, as shown and described. Y

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE O SBORN CLVRi Witnesses: S. S. VANDRUFF,

HENRY C. HUNT.- 

